Part+IV+Poetry

===In Part IV, we will gather together an anthology of poems. I would like you to have input into which poems we choose to study, so use this page to add some poems and/or poets which you like and we will then put together a collection of about 15 poems, chosen by the whole class. [Please see bottom of page for final list.] ===

Here are some suggestions to start you off. You can use the discussions page to add any further suggestions and to comment on these, and anyone else's suggestion.



Here is the PowerPoint I showed you. You might also like to follow some of the links in it to further your knowledge about this poem, and poetry in general. This poem is a parody of Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, and a fine example of how to write a parody.

The final list we studied is as follows:

To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell Lady Lazarus - Sylvia Plath Telephone Conversation - Wole Soyinka Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden If I Should Die - Emily Dickenson The Flea - John Donne The Sleeper - Edgar Allan Poe The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe Alone - Edgar Allan Poe On the Death of Ann Bronte - Charlotte Bronte Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy If - Rudyard Kipling Oh, Captain, My Captain - Walt Whitman

Comment on John Donne's 'The Flea'

Comparison between Donne's 'The Flea' and Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'. They are both seduction poems and each poet uses a different argument. Which do you think is likely to be more successful?

Here's a link to a website with a useful glossary of poetic terms. [|Poetry Glossary]

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